EDITORIALS
John Bascom---A Life of Service IT IS NOT POSSIBLE to overestimate the influence of President Bascom's moral power upon the University of Wisconsin, and through the University upon the state. He...
...We wish every one who wishes to clarify his ideas about The Ministry of Capital to community needs could read this story...
...We may look henceforth for a fuller measure of protect on from dishonest foods and drugs...
...The Washington court in this decision adds one more voice to the swelling judicial chorous calling upon our legislatures in the name of humanity to provide statutory relief from the appalling injustice and inhumanity of the present system of dealing with injured workmen...
...fraudulent business will find its way strewn with trouble...
...He would find himself carried along through the thought-provoking chapters by a good love story, as fresh and wholesome and free from the garishness of the "modern" love story as the clean out-of-doors...
...The two clash in the work of reclaiming the desert...
...There is something of the fascination of Aladdin's lamp in this work of changing an age-old, sun-scorched, barren, lifeless desert into verdant fields of growing things, communities teeming with useful, productive life, a new empire created out of desolation,—all with the magic touch of Water...
...its background is the reclamation service of transforming arid deserts into fertile farms...
...Its theme is The Ministry of Capital...
...We will only say that notwithstanding the decision comes from the highest court of the first state of the Union, and is supported by a most persuasive argument, we have not been able to yield our consent to the VIEW there taken...
...The press reflected the sentiment of the people...
...Read this from the decision: "Theoretically, of course, the employer and employee, on entering into a contract by which the one engages the services of the other, stand on the same plane, but in practice as it is well known, this ideal condition very seldom exists...
...Youthful, plastic, full of lusty, vigorous life, it was ready for some great master to mould its character and give direction to its future...
...WOODROW WILSON says the People, not the Bosses, should choose presidential candidates...
...And he would get acquainted with some interesting folks—Jefferson Worth, a hard, unemotional money-maker who discovered The Ministry of Capital...
...Abe Lee, the surveyor to whom Nature gave almost uncanny powers and a heart of gold...
...Wright shows a profound understanding of the nature and uses of Capital...
...He valued our raw youth at its true worth and for thirteen years he wrought into the life and character of the students of that institution the obligation of each one to pay back in service the debt due to the state...
...The institution had just reached the most impressionable period of its growth...
...but even a "judicial oligarchy" could not retard it long...
...His story abounds with action...
...Wiley's Opportunity DR...
...Indeed, the Washington Supreme Court makes refreshing comment on that New York decision when it says— "We shall offer no criticism of the opinion...
...It was the people's victory...
...Legitimate business will be encouraged...
...Viewed Through Progressive Eyes EFFORTS to promote industrial justice through progressive and well-considered legislation received encouragement all over this nation by the decision of the Supreme Court of the State of Washington upholding the constitutionality of the workmen's compensation law enacted recently in that state...
...He came to us from an institution and an environment with established educational ideals...
...Greed and sagacity on the one side, the necessity and incapacity on the other, sometimes lead to contracts that create conditions little short of peonage...
...Patrick Mooney and Texas Joe, both quick to resent an insult or defend a friend, the one with burly fist, the other with ready gun...
...Wright's characters are drawn with a masterly hand...
...And Mr...
...Now Wiley is in command of the pure food and drug board...
...Progress may be delayed at various points along the line by antiquated and reactionary courts...
...Willard Holmes, the young eastern engineer who found something worth while out there in the striving, bouyant West...
...It is doubtful if a public servant, threatened with removal from office by enemies to the public interest, ever before received endorsement from the newspapers and magazines that was so nearly unanimous...
...And then there is the "Seer," who dreamed the dream of reclaiming the desert that afterwards came true...
...Step by step we are approaching a better social order...
...We have, too, the individual, personal man-serving capital of Jefferson Worth, local banker and financier...
...McCabe, his arch foe, is shorn of his power to nullify Wiley's work...
...The latter wins...
...The story of this fight is at times thrilling, always inspiring...
...Here we have Wall Street, the gigantic aggregation of capital, impersonal, cold, ruthless, man-driving, pushing out to the uttermost boundaries of civilization in the insatiable quest for dividends, spurred by the prod of "good business...
...Barbara Worth, who ministered in her own way to the great work of putting life into the dead sand of the desert...
...It was, indeed...
...And the Court adds: "These conditions we think authorize the interference of the Legislature...
...The student body carried President Bascom's spirit into every community where it grounded and established men and women in principles admitting of no compromise with error or evil...
...The attitude of this court is in striking contrast to that of the New York Circuit Court of Appeals which aroused comment everywhere by rejecting the law passed by the New York legislature to afford just and adequate compensation for workers injured in industrial accidents...
...The University and the state will affectionately cherish and revere his precious memory for all time...
...It is a clean, wholesome, stirring and entertaining story of life and love and labor in the Far West...
...to those who have stoutly maintained that it was "the law" and not the views of the judges which controlled in that decision...
...In this Washington decision we get a glimpse of what splendid advance could be made if all our courts were minded to take "the view" that the constitution may fit the public needs of the present time...
...Wiley's service to the public is finding its reward in the opportunity to perform even greater service...
...In this case the Aladdin's lamp is Capital...
...The Winning of Barbara Worth" HAROLD BELL WRIGHT'S newest novel, "The Winning of Barbara Worth," (The Book Supply Company, Chicago, Illinois) is distinctively and splendidly an American novel...
...That idea, happily, is spreading...
...And not for one moment after this public opinion had become manifest was there any doubt that "Doc" Wiley would be kept at his post to protect consumers from the adulterants and "dopes" of the law breakers...
...He found a University in the first stages of its development, and a commonwealth, "the foundations of its statehood laid for us," as he later declared, "in the center of the most progressive population of the world...
...WILEY said to the newspaper men at Kansas City, where he went to speak before the National Conservation Congress: "It was not my victory...
...Which is somewhat of a blow, is it not...
...It is a very satisfying book...
...The men who are the slaves of capital and the man who makes his capital serve the community interests struggle for control...
...With clear vision President Bascom saw the true relation between a state university and the commonwealth that gave it being...
Vol. 3 • October 1911 • No. 41
